Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular FictionThis study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas. The authors provide critical approaches for evaluating the literature. They argue that while popular fiction conventions determine and limit authentic portraits of Native American cultures, successful popular fiction writers approach literary quality by fusing authentic Native American culture with the standard genre conventions. Approximately 200 books are discussed and evaluated, and true Native American stories and writings are contrasted with mainstream versions of Indian culture. |
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... ancient religious sites in the first , and the destructive , dislocating experience of being tortured as a World War II prisoner of the Japanese in the second , as well as the rage and drunk- enness that lead a returning Laguna POW to ...
... ancient Indian burial ground , and in his The Shining ( 1977 ) , ancient Indian spirits produce insanity in visitors to a luxury mountain hotel . In Thomas Monteleone's Night Things ( 1980 ) , when an Indian burial mound is disturbed ...
... ancient Quinault ghost board , and taking back Xulk's bones despite threats from wolf spirits and arctic cold . On the journey itself , armed with her great - great - great - grandfather's shaman's wand ( his spirit helper ) , Ah ...
Contents
Native Americans of the Imagination | 1 |
Accessing a Different | 21 |
The Enduring Creation Story | 45 |
Copyright | |
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